EC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources
(Key Action 5.1.2 under the 5th Framework) programme.
SEAfeeds Workshop 2003
SEAfeeds
Outcomes
European aquaculture, in particular marine production in Western Europe, has continued to increase rapidly during the last 10 years. Although aquaculture offers the potential of large-scale sustainable food production, concerns remain which must be addressed. The reliance of aquaculture of capture fisheries for feed raw material has caused many to question the industries sustainability. Far from being the solution to diminishing wild stocks, aquaculture has been vilified as a contributing factor; through the growing demand for fishmeal and fish oil derived from reduction fisheries.
Significant steps have been made in recent years in improving production efficiency, quality control and environmental status, however, if aquaculture’s undoubted potential as a sustainable food production industry of the future is to be realised, questions of feed sustainability must also be addressed.
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University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467878
www.stir.ac.uk/aquaculture